Many leading Hoosiers saw canals as a solution to the state’s transportation problems. The Erie Canal had opened in upstate ...

Some years later, author Lucius Beebe would write this: "Showpiece, legend, article of railroad faith, the 20th Century Limited is a national institution, moving with the exactitude of sidereal ...

JACKSON — Raw-boned courage. Vast fortunes won and lost. Towns built up overnight. Continental divides conquered. Such is the stuff of America’s railroad history, but it wasn’t all courage ...

the city where “seventeen railroads meet the sea.” So, when city leaders decided to put a train on the city seal in 1840, they were not only betting on Houston's growth but also correctly ...